See also: Inula

English edit

 
Inula heleniumelecampane

Etymology edit

From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.

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Noun edit

inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)

  1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
    • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 45:
      In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.
  2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

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Italian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin inula.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.nu.la/
  • Rhymes: -inula
  • Hyphenation: ì‧nu‧la

Noun edit

inula f (plural inule)

  1. inula

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Latin edit

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Etymology edit

From Ancient Greek ἰνάω (ináō, to purify, literally send forth), from Proto-Indo-European *Hish₂-, *His-neh₂-, which could be related to ἰαίνω (iaínō, to heat, warm).[1]

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Noun edit

inula f (genitive inulae); first declension

  1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative inula inulae
Genitive inulae inulārum
Dative inulae inulīs
Accusative inulam inulās
Ablative inulā inulīs
Vocative inula inulae

Descendants edit

  • English: inula
  • Italian: inula

References edit

  • inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • inula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “ἰνάω”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 592
  1. ^ (de) Bruno Vonarburg, Homöotanik: Blütenreicher Sommer, Georg Thieme Verlag, 2005, p. 273.